Click Here to Read: Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis? In the answer, and its consequences, a bioethicist finds moral lessons for today’s professional healer By Ashley K. Fernandes on the Tablet website on December 10, 2020.
Josef Mengele, Auschwitz. Album Höcker. Image: Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: History
Lost Yiddish Words
Click Here to Read: Lost Yiddish Words: The language contemporary Hasidim use in everyday life borrows from English and simplifies a richer linguistic ancestor—and yet is more alive by Rose Waldman on the Tablet website on December 11, 2020.
A page from Yiddish-Latin-Hebrew-German dictionary. Image: Elijah Levita. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Is Freud in the Dates?
Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Social Media
Click Here to Read: Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Social Media: How personal judgment—essential to a diverse democratic public sphere—gets subsumed by our clichéd attempts to join the crowd by Blake Smith on the Table website on December 04, 2020.
Photograph of Hannah Arendt in 1933 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
To Die One’s Own Death: Jacqueline Rose on Freud and his daughter
Click Here to Read: To Die One’s Own Death: Jacqueline Rose on Freud and his daughter in the London Review of Books in Vol. 42 No. 22 · 19 November 2020.
Freud family group. Photograph, c.1876. This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive). Public Domain via Wikmedia Commons.